# Memorials

  Writing a tribute to my Grandmother is, at the moment, very appropriate. She died last month, and that has helped our family think about what she meant to us and all the adventures she had over the course of her long life. She suffered from Dementia in her later years, and indeed at times I thin...

My lovely brother Neil who I unfortunately never got to meet but he will always be in my heart and in my thoughts. Love you loads big Bro xx

 On March 7th of 2005, at the age of 86, the finest example of fatherhood this world may have ever seen, passed away.  We live in a world that has stumbled and lost it's way when it comes to family values, and more specifically, fatherhood.  Believe me, during my rebellious, teenage years, I di...

There are no such great people anymore. So brave, so loving, so indefatigable optimistic, as my great-grandmother and great-grandfather were. Although they were born in the 1920s and we had a huge age difference, my granny Eugenia and grandpa Vasiliy were those with whom I always wanted to share the...

Dear Mama, I just want you to know that I miss you dearly and will always hold you in my heart. But there are times when all I want to do is hold you right now; hold onto you like I used to do when I was a little child. I remember the hugs and kisses we used to give each other. I was always the one...

In the beginning of my work as a journalist specialized in the cultural affairs in Egypt, I had a short, but so impressive phone call with the great Egyptian poet Abd El Rahman Al Abanody, God rest his soul. He was so sick at this time and also was in a visit to his ill sister. In the first momen...

In the 1984 Superbowl commerical, Apple released a strange and mystifying commercial; a commercial that would revolutionize who they were. Co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs contributed to this success. What he was able to achieve as an inventor shows what he was able accomplish with Apple. Steve Jo...

Among the thousands of peacemakers, she sealed her mark as the most worshiped lady on the move. Why? It takes extraordinary compassion to sacrifice a comfortable life to feel the pain of poor and to make a helpless life strong. Mother Theresa owned that courage to self-sacrifice her luxuries to cr...

“Hunny, do you like a baby girl or a boy?”Once my mom asked from my father eyes full of hopes and smiles full of dreams.My father was somewhat a rigid but an open-hearted person, replied,“Whoever god is planning to gift us”Surely with loads of hopes and dreams, not lesser to the mother. The...

Dear Janko, I know you will not be able to read this or maybe I am wrong and there is some kind of life beyond death. Who knows? It is funny how I have been trying to forget you, but now I have ended up writing a tribute to you. On April 2nd it would be your first death anniversary. I still haven�...